by Roedy Green ©2002-2008 Canadian Mind Products
Links
to Information about the Iraq war and what you can do to stop it.
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- Operation Iraqi Freedom:
the official pro-war propaganda site of the Iraq invasion. Lot’s of
pictures of soldiers giving kids candy. What are they trying to tell us?
- Impeach Bush
- Three
Myths About Iraq by Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector.
- Myth of Iraqi Soverereignty. Iraq has no independence at all. The USA totally
controls it.
- The myth of Zarqawi. Bush hyped him as a leader to gain prestige from his
assassination. He was insignificant as proved by the escaliting violence after
his death.
- The myth of WMD. Despite Rich Santorum’s lies, no WMDs were ever found.
The only thing found were some inert, very old, shells found lying about in the
desert.
- 14 Point
of Fascism: the fourteen characteristics of a Fascist state. You will
recognise all of them in spades in the Bush administration.
- Geopolitics of
Energy: an excellent essay explaining how energy is shaping foreign policy
all over the globe, not just in America.
- Robert Fisk is an
independent reporter inside Iraq from the beginning.
- TVNewsLies: news
site with links to most important stories about the Iraq war. Very up to date.
- US
Propaganda : how the Saddam statue toppling photos were faked to look like
they had mass Iraqi support and how the huge demonstration in the same place was
totally ignored.
- DefenseLink an official
US military propaganda source.
- Corporate
Assassin: an essay of moral outrage about the Iraq War by David Podvin.
- Meet
the Neocons
- Have a look at 16
videos captured by members of the West Palm Beach-based Bravo Company, 1st
Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment. These are not particularly shocking, but
they do show the callous disregard American soldiers have for Iraqi life.
- War
Profiteers
- Saddam Hussein’s name. What is his surname,
Saddam, Hussein or something else? It turns out the answer in ten times more
complicated that you ever would have imagined. The people in Iraq call him
Saddam.
- Joe
Trento of the Public Education Center.
- Jim
Hoagland: two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
- New
Yorker Magazine on Torturing Iraqi Prisoners.
- Seymour
Hersh: video plus transcript on many facets of Iraq from torture to secret
bombings. Hersh is the Pulitzer prize winner to broke Mai Lai and Abu Ghraib. He
is also the one accusing Bush of harbouring kiddie porn videos made of US
soldiers raping
young Iraq boys.
- On-line Newspapers:
various newspapers around the world you can read. The more sources you access,
the more balanced your picture will be. No source is unbiased. iraqwar.ru
is a newservice out of Russia on the Iraq war. Unfortunately it is in Russian. Aljazeera.net,
the Arabic news service is available in English. Debka.com
is an Israeli source that tends to get information out faster than the
competition. Arabnews.com
is a Saudi Arabian newspaper. News
India-Times, Hindustan
Times, India
Newspaper, Hindu On-line,
Times Of India
are papers from India. India is a reasonably neutral country. Mario’s
Global Links: gives links to news sources in just about every country on the
planet. Mario’s
Live TV: streaming video TV from all over the world. sianews.com
bills itself as news from the right. CSPAN:
is TV network, a radio station, and an Internet news service offering video and
audio clips. They tend to report the raw news with a minimum of editorialising. Genesis
Communication Network: right-wing talk radio. Out of Minnesota, but with a
flavour of the south. Alex Jones Show is left wing.
- P.J.
Crowley and Robert O. Boorstin on Bush’s ever changing
rationalisations for the war, done in the form of a silicon valley style list of
version numbers.
- Propagandacritic.com:
a site to teach you how to recognise and defend yourself against propaganda from
the left or right.
- Alternet: An on-line
magazine and information resource.
- Common Dreams News Center:
pro peace news slant.
- Cursor.org: relentlessly
feisty media watchdog.
- rense.com: Jeff Rense has a
radio program and web site with tons of links to the strange and rarely reported
underbelly of the Bush administration. The site masquerades as a crackpot UFO
site. This way it has managed to snipe at Bush without being shut down as many
of the more mainstream attacking sites have been. Mostly it is links to much
more reputable sites, so you can use it just to find interesting stuff.
- Drudge Report:
Breaking news often before it’s confirmed by anyone. Right wing bias, but
reports more news than the regular media.
- Intel Dump: A
weblog by Phil Carter, a former military officer gives military analysis of the
war in Iraq.
- Jim Hightower: Twice
elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true
political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom.
- The Dalai Lama
speaks on war and Iraq.
“Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of
war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach.”
~ Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama
- What Really Happened:
The history the government hopes you don’t learn. Get here soon
before it is gone. PayPal has suspended their ability to accept donations in an
attempt to censor them.
- Michael Moore: an
unlikely looking hero. He made the documentary Bowling
For Columbine. He wants to brainstorm on how to take back the country from
George W. Bush and friends. A
Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War. The audio of
his interview on Democracy Now is no longer avalailable.
- Thom Hartmann’s When
Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History about the collapse of democracy in
Germany and in America.
- Indymedia. A place to
post your findings. Not edited.
- Military
Dictatorship USA: This is rather over the top, but it points out how sloppy
nearly all Americans are being about protecting their hard won civil liberties
from the George W. Bush administration.
- Misleading
Statements: Congressmen Waxman’s list of Bush’s deceptive public
statements.
- The Skolnick Report:
a ton of dirt on the Bush family and their suspect dealings with the enemy.
Skolnick merely reports Washington gossip. This is not a site for hard news,
just a place to look for clues.
- misleader.org daily
report on just how Bush has mislead the public that day.
- The Information
Clearing House: general information about the Iraq war you won’t find
on CNN.
- The
Power Of Nightmares: BBC documentary on the rise of the neocons. Explains
founder Leo Strauss’s fascination with the James Arness character in
Gunsmoke, and their dedication to creating big lies to manipulate the people.
- Iraq
War Was Planned Long in advance of 9/11.
- George
Bush Is Not A Nazi: a Flash presentation showing the similarities between
Bush and Hitler.
- hypocrisy:
it is amazing who is in bed with who in Iraq.
- Rethinkers.org:
essays by people attempting to rethink the issues of peace and war. Not about
Iraq, but the alternatives to having more Iraqs.
- 911-strike.com: call to
action for Bush skullduggery surrounding 9/11 and Iraq.
- Organisations
Protesting the Iraq War
- Bush
admits there is no link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, hence 9/11.
Yet he dissembled so often most Americans were so confused they even thought
they were one and the same person.
- George
W. Bush’s Religious Beliefs. This Beliefnet.org
article discusses his religious beliefs in terms of Wesleyan and Calvinist
influences. Bush sometimes identifies as Epsicopalian, Methodist or Baptist. He
had a religious experience at age 39 with Billy Graham that convinced him to
stop drinking. He also belongs to two Satanic cults, the Skull
& Bones Society and the Bohemian
Grove. He opens all his meeting with public prayer, and quotes the Bible
extensively in his public speeches. His defence philosophy is certainly not
inspired by the Sermon on the Mount.
- Top Ten
Bush Scandals of 2003
- George McGovern (presidential candidate who lost to Nixon, and a major voice
against the Viet Nam War) spoke at the 2003-04-15
peace march in Missoula, Montana, USA. Unforunately the audio is no longer
available. He did write an essay called The
Reason Why on the Iraq war.
“I am sick and tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
~ George McGovern
“I think it is sad, the country you and I have all believed all our lives
was the greatest country on earth, is now regarded as a bully, is regarded as
arrogant, is regarded as careless about war.”
~ George McGovern
- WantToKnow.info:
financial scandals.
- RightWeb:
sort out the ties between various corporations and the political right.
- US
debt accurate to the penny.
- People sometimes forget themselves and believe something George W. Bush says.
Refresh your memory on his track
record. He is a compulsive liar. He lies even when there is no possible
benefit, just to keep his hand in. Has he ever told the plain unvarnished
truth about anything more substantial than what he felt like eating for
breakfast? I would like to compile a list. I have asked repeatedly for
submissions and have never got a response.
- The Memory Hole:
news from all over preserved from Orwellian tampering or erasure.
- The Nation: e-magazine for
the intellectual left.
- Eric Hufschmid:
essays about Iraq with the theme of citizens taking responsibility to hold
governments accountable. Also DVDs.
- Pipeline attacks
- UNESCO
on the effects of 12 years of American sanction bombings. Australians
report on the Basra water supply damage in the Iraq war. Damaging water supplies
is against the Geneva convention. It targets kids specifically, since they die
first of dehydration and from drinking from polluted puddles.
It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgment, and that is most
disturbing - both America and Iraq learned that when you try too hard to control
the picture of reality, you risk losing your grasp of it.
~ David Kay, Bush’s lead arms inspector in Iraq- Iraq Veterans Against The
War: listen to vets who saw with their own eyes what Bush is doing in Iraq.
“Now lets get to killing, and pumping that oil.”
~ A. Republicunt, a poster in alt.politics.bush
It is difficult to debate with folks like him in the alt.politics.bush
newsgroup who view war as a sort of international-league football or paintball
game. It has still not sunk in that wars primarily make kids and innocents
suffer. Perhaps some photos will provide a tiny crack in the delusion.- Loretta Napoleoni writes about
economics and terrorism. One of the amusing things is Muslim (not terrorist)
investors withdrew $700 billion in investments from the USA out of fear Bush
would would seize their assets. In other words, the US panic over 9/11 and its
overreaction is part of the cause of its current economic woes and the
spectacular success of the Islamic economies. Since 2004 the Saudi stock market
has outperformed all others.
Action
What You Can Do
The key is to reach people who only watch TV, hypnotised by FOX/CNN propaganda.
To do that you must buy Barrie Zwicker’s Vision TV documentary The
Great Deception, What really happened on Sept. 11 on video tape.
Then buy Iraq
Uncovered on DVD.
Then download all the Eric
Blumrich animations onto CD.
Then invite some friends over to watch, and give them copies of the DVD and the
CD.
Then find some vets who have recently returned from Iraq. Get them on TV. Get
them to address your club. Failing that invite them to you home to talk to your
friends to learn first hand about what happened in Iraq.
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